January 02, 1847

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Features

Beals' Cracking Mill

On the Manufacture of Steel

Scientific Memoranda

Improvements in Embossing, &C

Departments

Departments

Railway Travelling in America

Be not over Nice

Good Example

Bridge Across the Ohio

Temperance in Vermont

Shells

Plank Roads

New Mill-Pond

Ingenious Mechanism

General Le Vega

Cost of Telegraphing

Boston Weekly Athenæum

Barn Burning

A Simple Experiment

The Right Move

Persecution of the Jews

Fall River Railroad

Benefit of Advertising

A Young State

The Magnetic Telegraph

A Monstrous Bear

A Long Day

Probably True

Mr. Clay again in the Field

Importance of Repose

Facilities Anticipated

Steamboat Mohegan Sunk

Mills at St. Louis

Canal Trade

What an Invention

Silver Ores

Science in France

Ohio Pumpkins

Metallic Qualifications

Graham's Magazine

Dispatch in Building

Bullets

The Boston Times

Ship Building

School Diversion

Preparing Tea

A Consolation

Stellar Distances

An Excuse

To the Domestic Needle

Inverted arch Suspension Bridge

New Inventions

Improved Carriage Springs

A Hint for Bankers

Escape Ladder

The War

Compliments of the Season

Ohio Temperance Artizan

To New Subscribers

The Columbian Magazine

To Correspondents

Bay of San Francisco

Rather Caustic

Light from Flowers

Chemistry

Great Western Railroad

A Gloomy Picture

Those Unfeeling Robbers

Loss of the Somers

A New York Orchard

To the Inventors of the United States

Late News

Notice

Depth of the Gulf Stream

Scientific American

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